Humor is the topic of today’s staff picks blog post.
What makes us laugh? Check out some fantastic recommendations by Lewis & Clark Library staff.
Experience a week in the life of Hank Devereaux, an incorrigible yet endearing professor at a mediocre university. A masterful depiction of small-town America, campus politics, and middle age presented as only Russo can. Poignant and laugh-out-loud funny.
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Read about the author HERE
Midnight Riot - Peter Grant Mystery Series
These fabulous books are set in London where policeman Peter Grant is conscripted into the Metro Police's 'supernatural' division. Hijinks with demons, river gods, and all manner of underground London sinister doings with a great sense of humor!
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Hoopla (including graphic novels!) HERE
Read more about the author and the Rivers of London series HERE
The Captain and the Glory
The Captain and the Glory is a funny, entertaining, and if you view it as a satire of the United States in our current political situation, and oddly familiar book. It centers on the ship Glory whose captain has just stepped down. From the indecisive crew and passengers rises a new leader who spends more time glorifying his own over-hyped deeds and throwing anyone who disagrees with him overboard than he does in understanding how to captain a boat. The Captain and the Glory is a fun and enjoyable read.
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I nominate A Confederacy of Dunces as one of the funniest novels ever written. The central character Ignatius Reilly is an overeducated, lazy narcissist. His adventures around 1960's New Orleans are slapstick, poignant, and socially relevant.
The amazing back-story of how the book was finally published is detailed in the prologue, written by Walker Percy.
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Humorist John Hodgeman's book, about growing mustaches, the dangers of freshwater clams, and "which animals to keep as pets and which to trap or poison." John Hodgeman is a very funny, nearly psychedelic writer and performer. His stage presentations are very much like his writing, frenetic and hilarious.
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Hilarious fantasy novel!! If you want a story that will make you laugh out loud, this is it! It is also a great coming of age series with a strong female lead.
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I read this absurd and hilarious book in high school because it was an "SAT vocab" booster. I keep reading it, year after year, because it's hilarious, absurd, and features Pan, beets, and ambergris. Intrigued yet?
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Any audiobook written and performed by David Sedaris
Best. Travelling. Companion.
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Bretagne recommends . . .
Tina Fey is one of the most hilarious women alive and her book will make you laugh out loud!
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A quick fun read that will keep you very entertained.
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A fantastic tale that is great in audiobook form as well because the reader uses distinctive and often hilarious voices.
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An irreverent and hilarious retelling of Don Quixote with the protagonist as a teenage boy with Mad Cow Disease. Best as an audiobook.
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Still Life with Woodpecker
The last line of the book is the greatest sentence in all of literature. The book is filled with quotable zingers so that's STILL saying something.
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